SIR (ANCESTRAL CHANT CUT)
(low drums…breath…eh…eh…)
(ancestors gather…mmh…come forth…)
Invocation
Listen…
Blood hears blood.
Bone remembers bone.
Fire remembers who lit it.
(mmh…this is heavy…)
Chant – Opening
Sir…sir…sir…
Your name is heavy, your shadow long.
Sir…sir…sir…
Your voice is loud, but your spirit is thin.
(eh…)
Verse / Chant 1
You speak as if fear still lives in our skin,
As if your raised hand can still freeze us inside.
(mmh…)
That fear is dead.
That fear has rotted.
That fear buried itself the day we grew backbones.
(rise…rise…)
You still use old pain like a fresh weapon,
But a healed wound no longer bleeds.
Sir…we are not children in your mouth,
Time moved on.
We moved with it.
(stand firm…)
Chant – Call & Response
Who are you speaking to?
—GROWN SOULS.
Who are you trying to bend?
—BLOOD WITH SPINES.
Who is still afraid?
—NO ONE.
(answer it! answer it!)
Verse / Chant 2
You are lucky mercy still breathes in this house,
Some men plant storms and harvest fire on their own land.
(shame…)
You are lucky some children still choose calm,
While truth chokes my chest until it demands a voice.
You talk of bridges…you talk of hunger…you talk of collapse,
But hear me clearly—
I still choose heart.
I still refuse to become your echo.
(spirit intact…)
Chant – Eighty
Eighty…
Eighty seasons…
Eighty harvests…
And still you choose control.
(it is wrong…)
Eighty…
Time begs for prayer,
You answer with division.
(listen…)
Verse / Chant 3
You light fires…
You walk away…
You leave siblings to breathe in smoke.
(mmh…)
You clap when walls rise,
You turn your back when bridges beg to be repaired.
Look around.
Look carefully.
This is your design.
(the ancestors see…)
Chant – Judgment
Blood does not forget.
Bone does not lie.
Time does not respect titles.
(say it!)
Blood does not forget.
Bone does not lie.
Time will ask its questions.
(it will ask!)
Outro – Final Invocation
This is not a curse.
This is release.
I drop what was never my burden.
I step out of a shadow that was never my shape.
(exhale…)
Sir…
Your echo ends here.
My silence ends today.
(drums fade…breath…) 🎤
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